Re: Re: python 2.5, opensolaris and SunPro

[Jonathan Perkin <jonathan%perkin.org.uk@localhost>]

* On 2009-05-12 at 07:12 BST, Carl Brewer wrote:

> > and saw that indeed, python 2.5 didn't build. That's because of an
> > "undefined symbol FFI_DEFAULT_ABI". I expect this to be easy to fix.
>
> Yeah, that's the one, I've submitted a bug report to gnats on it, it's a
> dependancy on ctypes which is a GCC thing.

It isn't an easy fix.  Your best bet is to set

  PYTHON_VERSION_DEFAULT=24

and wait for newer python/libffi to work with Sun Studio.

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